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ens'rAvn DEVILLEP LX, or ABBEVILLE, (SOMME,) AND JOSEPH, FRANCOISBONNATERRE, OF'PARIS, FRANCE.

I Letters Patent No. 77,805, dated May 12,1868.

IMPROVED LIQUID EXTRAGTS FROM VEGETABLES.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN":

Be it known that we, Gus'ravn on Vrrnnrorx, of Abbe-ville, (Somme,) inthe French Empire, apotheeary,

and Josnru FRAN OIS BONNATBRRE, of Paris, in the French Empire, civilengineer, have invented newand useful Improvementsin Liquid Extract fromVegetables; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention consists in the preparation of an aromatic liquidwhich weterm extract from vegetables,

as it is a product resulting from the distillation of the vegetables andcondiments used. for culinary purposes.

The intent of this liquid is to procure to the consumers of the extractfrom viands (Liebig) or of any other similar preparation, a ready andthorough substitute for the pot aufeu," whereby may be preparedimmediatelya pctage yielding the same savers as the best homegravy-soup, (czmsomm) i i In order to invest our product with the samequalities of economy and simplicity which characterize the extract fromviands, such as Liebigs, we have chiefly contrived also to prepare ourextract from vegetables in a condition of great concentration andinalterability.

. We give hereafter one instance of our method of preparing an extractfrom vegetables, but it will be easily understood that the nature of theextract, the proportions of vegetables and condiments, will varyaccording to the wants, and thercforewe intend to give the followingstatement merely as one example of our improvedmethod of preparing theextract from vegetables. I

, Into a still, made of well-tinned copper, or into any other suitableculinary utensil provided 'with a double bottom, we throw from sixteento seventeen gallons ofwatcr. I I

Common salt, four pounds.

Turnips, thirty-six pounds.

Leeks, sixteen pounds.

Onions, oneand a half pound.

Celery, six pounds.

Parsley, one pound.

Cloves, two hundred. I

Garlic, eight cloves or seventy-five aglets.

We distill on a slow fire, so as to extract seven gallons therefrom.

The aromatic liquor is to be admitted (and this is one of the mainfeatures of the new extract) into a vessel containing, previously,

.Oommon salt, twenty-four pounds. I

Refined sugar, sixteen pounds.

These substances will preserve, when being prepared, their whole aroma,and prevent any fermentation of the above liquor.

When the distillation as above has yielded seven gallons, and thearomatic liquid mixed with the salt and sugar which it holds insolution, it will mark 30 by the aerometer of Baum.

Thc additionof salt in the first preparation or maceration-water isintended to raise the boiling-point of the water, in order to permit thevolatilization or distillation of the essential oils and aromaticproperties of the ingredients therein. I Q 1 Claims.

1. As a new article of manufacturmthc herein-described liquid-extract ofvegetables, as and for the purpose described.

2. The herein-described process for preparing the said liquid extract ofvegetables, as and for the purposedescribed. 7

t 3. The combination, with the said liquid extracts of vegetables, of asolution of salt and sugar, substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

' G. DE VILLEPOIX,

BONNATERRE.

Witnesses A. GuroN. DEMos.

